learn more about the range of organizations comprising the anti-union network.
center for union facts--notorious industry lobbyist and pr flak richard berman is now attacking unions through his latest front group, in the same way he's fought against drunk driving laws, health regulations, consumer protections, and minimum wage increases for years.
u.s. chamber of commerce--the nation's most powerful business lobbying organization, has been campaigning against unions, fair labor practices, and legal protections for america's workers for nearly a century.
public service research foundation and council--these small, established groups supply their more prominent anti-union colleagues with research, polling, and propaganda to fight against the right of teachers and other public employees to have unions.
for-profit unionbusters--these professional consultants or lawyers profit off their ability to manipulate labor law, advising employers on how to thwart union organizing drives or how to get rid of workers' unions.
Propaganda is what the unions are all about in pushing their message. I will continue to call it as I see it just as pro-union folks will continue to do.
Is this help you speak about the same help that was lauded on the CyFair Nurses in Houston? I guess when you have a neutrality agreement, that prevents anti-union nurses from trying to educate their coworkers about the union on hospital grounds and also aided the union by giving them complete access to nurses address' and phone numbers even though the hospital wasn't being represented by the union, it can be a little easier to unionize a facility. Shame though, Cy Fair is in the process of decertifying your wonderful union.
Let me get this straight? You're for safe staffing and yet you'll allow other nurses at another facility to be over staffed? Is that correct? You'd have your patients sent to another facility and put them in danger? You have no idea if the nursing staff there is able to take care of those patients. How would you feel if you had a nurse you had bonded with, who may have done CPR on you abandon you and have you shipped across town. In the cold or the rain? What if you are a pysch nurse and your patient has finally come to trust you? What do you do when your hospital is a hight level care and the neighboring hospital isn't. What happens when you're the only game in town?
There is not necessarily overstaffing. ALL RESPONSIBLE health care facilities are supposed to have plans to handle emergencies if pts have to be diverted elsewhere, in case of damage to the facility. They also have more than enough time to prepare, unlike a real emergency situation, and find reasonable and safe accomodation. This may mean that they reduce nonemergency procedures/elective procedures. Unfortunately, this cuts in into the facilities bottom line, and hurts their reputation...something that they are reluctant to do. And as seen in Katrina, many facilities shirk this duty to their patients and staff and then throw their remaining, often most dedicated HCWers to the wolves in the aftermath.
I may not know if their staff is there, but the facility is supposed to have ensured that through their emergency plans. And quite bluntly, if there is a strike imminent, in my experience, it is because the current staffing is so abysmal (d/t poor facilty management/conditions) that the patients are already not getting the optimal care that they deserve.
You say that a nurse "abandons" those when the pt has "bonded" with them, has resuscitated them, or gained the pts' trust. Guess what? If that nurse quits a facility because the conditions are dangerous/intolerable......the pt is just as "abandoned" as if that nurse goes out on strike. But at least if s/he goes out attempting to improve conditions for that pt, it probably ends being better for the pt. If that nurse just quits, NOTHING will be improved for the pt.
And when nurses eventially quit the profession, because they are not staffed to give the pts the care that they need, that effectively "abandons" all pts, and is much more damaging than a strike.
And as the bonding issue goes, too many nurses play the "bonding" game. This is "my" special pt, I am "bonded" with them, they like me specially. It ignores the fact that often this "bonding" interferes with the pt becoming a fully healthy pt in the physical/psychological/social sense, where they need to interact with many caregivers to fully recover.
Is there a possibility that someone my need to go to a facility, quite a distance away to get proper level of care? Perhaps. But giving them consistantly less than optimal care without any attempt at remedy, is not an appropriate answer either.
There is not necessarily overstaffing. ALL RESPONSIBLE health care facilities are supposed to have plans to handle emergencies if pts have to be diverted elsewhere, in case of damage to the facility. They also have more than enough time to prepare, unlike a real emergency situation, and find reasonable and safe accomodation. This may mean that they reduce nonemergency procedures/elective procedures. Unfortunately, this cuts in into the facilities bottom line, and hurts their reputation...something that they are reluctant to do. And as seen in Katrina, many facilities shirk this duty to their patients and staff and then throw their remaining, often most dedicated HCWers to the wolves in the aftermath.
I may not know if their staff is there, but the facility is supposed to have ensured that through their emergency plans. And quite bluntly, if there is a strike imminent, in my experience, it is because the current staffing is so abysmal (d/t poor facilty management/conditions) that the patients are already not getting the optimal care that they deserve.
You say that a nurse "abandons" those when the pt has "bonded" with them, has resuscitated them, or gained the pts' trust. Guess what? If that nurse quits a facility because the conditions are dangerous/intolerable......the pt is just as "abandoned" as if that nurse goes out on strike. But at least if s/he goes out attempting to improve conditions for that pt, it probably ends being better for the pt. If that nurse just quits, NOTHING will be improved for the pt.
And when nurses eventially quit the profession, because they are not staffed to give the pts the care that they need, that effectively "abandons" all pts, and is much more damaging than a strike.
And as the bonding issue goes, too many nurses play the "bonding" game. This is "my" special pt, I am "bonded" with them, they like me specially. It ignores the fact that often this "bonding" interferes with the pt becoming a fully healthy pt in the physical/psychological/social sense, where they need to interact with many caregivers to fully recover.
Is there a possibility that someone my need to go to a facility, quite a distance away to get proper level of care? Perhaps. But giving them consistantly less than optimal care without any attempt at remedy, is not an appropriate answer either.
I'm sure a mother in labor who's depended on a nurse for several hours loves the change of shift.
I'm sure a mother in labor who's depended on a nurse for several hours loves the change of shift.
Does that mother "loves" that her nurse gets pulled away repeatedly to care for too many other pts, because the facility has staffed poorly? Is she upset when she has very little "nurse" time to depend on through this critical point in her life?
What happens when that mother comes in and there ARE NO!!! nurses with adequate experience, because they have quit the profession rather than "abandon" their pts to strike for improvement in their poor conditions, improvements that might have kept them in the profession?
Will she be upset when that diabetic nurse that she cares about so much, faints at a critical moment, because no one could allow her time to test her sugar/take insulin/eat during her 13 hours on her feet (actually happened)? When the nurse that has a baby at home, has her breasts start leaking because she has not been able to pump? Or when the nurse is discussing the need for adequate fluid/nutritional intake postpartum for proper breastfeeding and recovery, and yet the nurse herself has not eaten or had a drink of water herself for 12 hours?
Sorry, but as a healthcare worker that prides herself on providing the best care possible, I have learned that one cannot give the best care possible, when I do not give a certain amount of care to my coworkers and myself. That means that after giving the best care possible, I need to leave, let another shift of excellent, properly fed, adequately staffed/rested nurses return and fight the good fight for excellent care for my patients, so that I can return rested, and continue on. The mothers benefit from having a rejuvenated, experienced coworker, that has not been "burned out" by the facility to provide continued care.
Does that mother "loves" that her nurse gets pulled away repeatedly to care for too many other pts, because the facility has staffed poorly? Is she upset when she has very little "nurse" time to depend on through this critical point in her life?
What happens when that mother comes in and there ARE NO!!! nurses with adequate experience, because they have quit the profession rather than "abandon" their pts to strike for improvement in their poor conditions, improvements that might have kept them in the profession?
Will she be upset when that diabetic nurse that she cares about so much, faints at a critical moment, because no one could allow her time to test her sugar/take insulin/eat during her 13 hours on her feet (actually happened)? When the nurse that has a baby at home, has her breasts start leaking because she has not been able to pump? Or when the nurse is discussing the need for adequate fluid/nutritional intake postpartum for proper breastfeeding and recovery, and yet the nurse herself has not eaten or had a drink of water herself for 12 hours?
Sorry, but as a healthcare worker that prides herself on providing the best care possible, I have learned that one cannot give the best care possible, when I do not give a certain amount of care to my coworkers and myself. That means that after giving the best care possible, I need to leave, let another shift of excellent, properly fed, adequately staffed/rested nurses return and fight the good fight for excellent care for my patients, so that I can return rested, and continue on. The mothers benefit from having a rejuvenated, experienced coworker, that has not been "burned out" by the facility to provide continued care.
Looks like you need another layer of managemenet, aka the union, to help you out??????
Looks like you need another layer of managemenet, aka the union, to help you out??????
No, please read my previous posts, I despise unions and consider most of them , like organized political parties, a waste of space/money. It would help if you would follow the posts and do not ASSume things.
As I said previously , in my experience, when nurses strike, it is because conditions are abysmal, and the conditions are threatening safe pt care. As to whether nurses strike, it matters little to me as to whether they are union or not. What natters is that nurses are supporting each other and their patients, through facilitating safer care.
Unfortunately it seems that unions are often the only way to facilitate that, since our national nursing organization refuse to do so.
I can go to my manager or director with any issuse and not worry about being "targeted". The union camp wants all nurses to think that they have no say in anything job related without fear of reprisal and its ridiculous. This is a strategy to lure nurses into the union way of thinking. The unions only want nurses who can't think for themselves and they want nurses to think they are the only ones who can speak for them. This is nothing more than propaganda and lies meant to create paranoia and try to convince people they need protection from the big, bad administration!
Fantastic post!!!! Hear Hear!!!!!!
Btw, you forgot to mention how the unions are nothing more than an extension of Obama.....and look what happened tonight in Kennedy country!!!!! People are fed up and unions shouldnt be in the back pocket for politicians or steal union dues to give to liberals who will pat each other on the back. Does no one want to talk about all the back door secret meetings that have been going on in the WH with Obama and the union bosses? They made a deal not to get taxed for the cadillac healthcare...how convenient for them.....they donate millions of $$$$ to Obama and he makes a back door deal with them to give them a tax break. Union members are too brainwashed to see that they are used for their money and nothing more than a political puppet by the Dems.
Btw, you forgot to mention how the unions are nothing more than an extension of Obama.....and look what happened tonight in Kennedy country!!!!! People are fed up and unions shouldnt be in the back pocket for politicians or steal union dues to give to liberals who will pat each other on the back. Does no one want to talk about all the back door secret meetings that have been going on in the WH with Obama and the union bosses? They made a deal not to get taxed for the cadillac healthcare...how convenient for them.....they donate millions of $$$$ to Obama and he makes a back door deal with them to give them a tax break. Union members are too brainwashed to see that they are used for their money and nothing more than a political puppet by the Dems.
"Brainwashed" Oh, please... And it's amazing that all that stuff is Obama's when he's only been in office a year and inherited a huge deficit, two wars and the party of "no" to keep him from instituting his agenda--but that's another thread.
When the nurses struck in my facility, many of the striking nurses went to work per diem at the other facilities in the city. However, the hospital refused to transfer patients and instead hired strikebreakers. The strike lasted quite awhile--cost both the strikers and the hospital quite a lot (it ain't cheap, hiring strikebreakers, but I'm sure the agencies that supply them make out like bandits.)
Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
Fantastic post!!!! Hear Hear!!!!!!
Btw, you forgot to mention how the unions are nothing more than an extension of Obama.....and look what happened tonight in Kennedy country!!!!! People are fed up and unions shouldnt be in the back pocket for politicians or steal union dues to give to liberals who will pat each other on the back. Does no one want to talk about all the back door secret meetings that have been going on in the WH with Obama and the union bosses? They made a deal not to get taxed for the cadillac healthcare...how convenient for them.....they donate millions of $$$$ to Obama and he makes a back door deal with them to give them a tax break. Union members are too brainwashed to see that they are used for their money and nothing more than a political puppet by the Dems.
Your reply is typical of union arrogance....you believe that union members should get special treatment while everyone else gets taxed....again that is why union workers play kissy face with Obama....you pat my back, Ill pat yours.....
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